lancelot wrote:
I guess the Russian MoD isn't impervious to bullshit either. 550 aircraft. There weren't that many Soviet built aircraft operating in Europe to begin with. Not to mention 13,924 tanks... There aren't that many operating in Europe to begin with either.
Are these people counting every single attempted strike at a vehicle as its destruction or what.
You have an issue with two things.
The first is reading the numbers, while the second in understanding the scale of this war.
14k is not "tanks", but tanks and other armored units, including SPG, armored cars, MRAPs etc.
Ukraine used to have close to 3000 tanks left after the dissolution of the SU, with almost 1000 of those fielded a day before 240222.
The number of BMPs of a different type was around 6000 pcs.
They have been left with 280 MiG-29, 100 Su-27, 100+ Su-25 and around 150 Su-24.
Now, do the math.
Only Poland supplied them with more than 320 tanks.
I know mechanized brigades where companies are left with 1 (ONE) operational BMP, as all the others are gone for 404.
We used to have more than 540 2S1 122 mm howitzers, and some 110+ 152mm Danas.
It is already official that we have supplied khokhols with more than a half out of 80 existing 155mm Krabs.
How do you think, we supplied them with our best and most modern howitzers because of having so many of them to share, or because we don't have anything old left?
HSW can produce about 30 pcs a year - that is why emergency purchases have been made in Korea for K9.
We used to have 40 MiG-29s. Now, it is a publicly known secret that only a few are left, to pretend that those still exist. While people know where to find them - scattered over Ukro wastelands.
There are no more Mi-17 left.
The very same rampage was ongoing in Czech, Slovakia, Bulgaria and Romania - if you combine them, the numbers can be even higher.
They get Bulgarian and Macedonian Su-25, and probably some Czech and Slovak, too.
Slovak MiG-29s has been delivered even as the fact ended the existence of Slovakian airforces.
US had some 30+ planes, too ...
Now, does the numbers provided by Russkie sound more reasonable to you?